Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-17
THE PROHIBITIONISTS
beginning to Warm Up At Parkersburg
The Latest News.

Beginning to Warm Up 1T Parkersburg-
h Latest News.
Special Tlegram % he Sunday Register.
PARKERsBURG, w. Va, April 16.-Tbe
PrOhibitionists are beginning work in earn
EST, IN this community at least, and those
who are opposed TO the adoption of the
Amendment shOnld not deceive themselves
by any vain hope that the enemy is rest
ing. II is the intention, as your CORE
spORdent has gathered from conversation
with the leading Prohibitionists here, and
there are o more ~outspoken and deter
mined in the State, to make a hot, vigor-
Gus campaign from now until the night of
election in November, 1888. All avenues
of communication are to be worked. The
school house and the church, the religious
cOnelave and the political convention, the
Teachers Institute and the Farmers Club
are all to be used for all that can be got
OubOf them to make votes for the amend
ment A central committee, composed of
the following persons have been select
ed: First Senatorial District, George w.
Atkinson; Second, George W. Kinsey;
Third, David McGregor; Fourth, Dave d.
johnson; Fifth, j. l.. Hensley; Sixth,
Thomas Z. Hodges; Seventh, William NJ.
Reynolds; Eighth, c. II. Payne; Ninth,
Robert J.. Simpson; Eleventh P. b. Rey-
nolds; Twelfth, Il. r. CarskadOn; Thir-
teenth, Miss Flora B. Siler.
The following compose the State Central
Committee: Dave ID. johnson, of Wood,
Chairman; Geo. W. Atkinson, of Ohio;
Jas. H. Ferguson, of Kanawha; VIM. A.
Stricken, of Richie; Mrs. NJ. NJ. Snow, of
Wood.
No party lines are drawn here, and it is
on the ground Of non-partisan efforts that
the ProhibitiOnists expect to win. Before
long the State is to be entered at all quar-
tiers by prominent male and female Prohi-
bition speakers, among whom will be
ex-senator Colquitt, of Georgia; Miss
Francis Willard, Senator Blair, of
New Hampshire; DIR. Leonard, of
Ohio, and, if possible, Senators Maxey
and Reagan, of Texas. So far there has
been no formal announcement that st.
John is to he here. He is too bold a fraud
to be recognized now by the wise among the
PrOhibitiOnists, and the State will doubt
less be spared the infection OF his pres
ence.
1t is now generally understood that
both the Gas Company and the Electric
Light Company will take the ease Just
decided to the Supreme Court of Appeals.
In the meantime the Electric Company
are working like beavers putting in poles
and up wires. The company expect to
have the lights turned on by the first of
July and perhaps sooner.
The clipping couple reported a few days
ago have made this city their home. The
young lady is a daughter of Chas. Knott,
of Jefferson county, and her husband is
Vim Beazley, for a year past a fireman on
the Ohio River railroad. The marriage
was quite romantic, as the young lady, to
overcome the obstacles interpOsed by her
unwilling parents, had to flee to this city,
when she was met by Beazley.
At the last meeting of the City Council,
in response to the petition of Capt. Muhie-
man, of the Andes, the following ordinance
was passed: That the wharfage rate for
through passenger steamers from Cincin-
natl and Charleston to Wheeling and Pitts
burg, lying at the wharf, shall be $l.25
for every twenty-four hours or fraction
thereof.
The latest railroad project for Parkers-
burg is the announced change in the ter
minus of the Cincinnati, Dayton and Bal
timore railroad Ia branch of the b, d o.
from PomerOy, Ohio, TO Bclpre just across
from this city. The line has been surveyed
and work begins at once. 1t will follow
the Ohio river, on the Ohio side, and he n
competing line for the Ohio River road. 1t
will eventually give the people of this sec
ton another road to Cincinnati.